kavika
/kəˈviːkə/
kavika noun: the Malay apple, Syzygium malaccense.
Noun
kavika (plural kavikas)
- The Malay apple, Syzygium malaccense.
- In their idea, there is scarcely a finer tree than the Kavika; and when in their fairy tales the imagination runs riot, and describes all that is lovely and beautiful, the Kavika is rarely omitted.1862, Berthold Seemann, Viti: an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands, in the years 1860-61, Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 318
- Although of no effect so far as the course of the small outbreak at Nacaugai is concerned it is necessary to add here that the prompt destruction of kavika trees over much of the neighbouring land on Nagasau estate was in all probability an important measure of control and responsible for the...1935 March, T[homas] H. C. Taylor, “The Campaign against Aspidiotus destructor, Sign., in Fiji”, in Bulletin of Entomological Research, volume 26, Imperial Institute of Entomology, →DOI, →ISSN...
Forms of kavika
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Origin of kavika
Presumably borrowed from Fijian kavika, from Proto-Oceanic *kapika. First attested in 1862.
Words that rhyme with kavika
Questions about kavika
- What does kavika mean?
- Kavika means the Malay apple, Syzygium malaccense.
- What part of speech is kavika?
- Kavika is a noun.
- How do you pronounce kavika?
- Kavika is pronounced /kəˈviːkə/.
- What is the plural of kavika?
- The plural of kavika is kavikas.
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